{"id":38614,"date":"2025-03-19T13:09:14","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T12:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resoilfoundation.org\/articles\/desertificazione-globale-suolo-francia\/"},"modified":"2025-04-01T17:13:40","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T15:13:40","slug":"global-desertification-soil-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resoilfoundation.org\/en\/environment\/global-desertification-soil-france\/","title":{"rendered":"France is the latest victim of global desertification"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Late last year, France was added for the first time to the UN list of countries declared affected by land degradation and desertification. A phenomenon that impacts more than 3 billion people worldwide<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">by Matteo Cavallito<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Desertification<\/strong> is an increasingly common emergency. A particularly widespread problem, even larger than people think. Recently, in this sense, a particular national case has managed to attract some attention, establishing itself as an emblematic example of the <strong>global nature<\/strong> of the phenomenon. At the end of last year, in fact, the <strong>United Nations<\/strong> updated the list of countries declared affected by land degradation and desertification by welcoming a new member to the unenviable list. This was not any African state from the Sahel nor any nation from the endless Asian steppes, but rather the 14th EU member to join the club: <strong>France<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div class='avia-iframe-wrap'>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"1sbWXGagSk\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/resoilfoundation.org\/en\/articles\/sand-cellulose-china-desert\/\">China is fighting desertification by adding cellulose to sand<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;China is fighting desertification by adding cellulose to sand&#8221; &#8212; Re Soil Foundation\" src=\"https:\/\/resoilfoundation.org\/en\/articles\/sand-cellulose-china-desert\/embed\/#?secret=ffJgtjeOGK#?secret=1sbWXGagSk\" data-secret=\"1sbWXGagSk\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h5>Desertification affects more than 3 billion people<\/h5>\n<p>In December, Reporterre magazine <a href=\"https:\/\/reporterre.net\/La-France-rejoint-les-pays-touches-par-la-desertification\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recalls<\/a>, France was thus added to the list of 169 other states subject to the problem, According to Thani Mohamed Soilihi, the head of the French delegation at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unccd.int\/cop16\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Conference of the Parties<\/a> to the <strong>United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unccd.int\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UNCCD<\/a>) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, this represents \u201canother step toward greater awareness of this reality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Desertification, or land and soil degradation in drylands, is promoted by several factors. These include, of course, climate change, which results in extreme weather events. But also <strong>loss of fertility<\/strong> and declining availability of water supplies. According to the <strong>Institut de recherche pour le d\u00e9veloppement<\/strong> (IRD), a French research organization based in Marseille, global desertification currently affects <strong>3.2 billion people<\/strong>. And threatens 40 percent of the Planet&#8217;s surface area excluding Antarctica.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_37618\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37618\" class=\"size-full wp-image-37618\" src=\"https:\/\/resoilfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Schermata-2025-01-07-alle-10.06.58.png\" alt=\"L'evoluzione dell'aridit\u00e0. Nel riquadro superiore \u00e8 mostrata la differenza tra i valori dell'Indice di aridit\u00e0 (AI) nel periodo 1961-1990 e il periodo 1991-2020. Il verde indica condizioni pi\u00f9 umide, il marrone condizioni pi\u00f9 secche (la Groenlandia \u00e8 mascherata nel pannello superiore poich\u00e9 l'AI mostra grandi variazioni dovute alla neve, senza spostamenti dalla classe AI fredda). Il riquadro inferiore indica gli spostamenti tra le classi AI nei periodi sopra menzionati. Le aree nere sono gli hotspot esposti all'aridificazione. FONTE: Unccd Aridity report, 2024.\" width=\"1014\" height=\"802\" srcset=\"https:\/\/resoilfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Schermata-2025-01-07-alle-10.06.58.png 1014w, https:\/\/resoilfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Schermata-2025-01-07-alle-10.06.58-300x237.png 300w, https:\/\/resoilfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Schermata-2025-01-07-alle-10.06.58-768x607.png 768w, https:\/\/resoilfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Schermata-2025-01-07-alle-10.06.58-705x558.png 705w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1014px) 100vw, 1014px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-37618\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The evolution of aridity. The upper panel shows the difference between aridity index (AI) values over the period 1961-1990 and the period 1991-2020. Green indicates wetter conditions, brown drier conditions (Greenland is masked in the upper panel because the AI shows large variations due to snow, with no shifts from the cold AI class). The lower panel shows shifts between AI classes during the periods mentioned above. The black areas are the hotspots exposed to aridification. SOURCE: Unccd Aridity report, 2024.<\/p><\/div>\n<h5>Three-quarters of soils are drier than 30 years ago<\/h5>\n<p>One of the most problematic aspects of desertification is its status of being an evolving phenomenon. In fact, the phenomenon, revealed a recent report (\u201cThe Global Threat of Drying Lands\u201d) produced by the UN Convention itself, <strong>has been on the rise for 30 years<\/strong> now. A period in which drylands have grown by 4.3 million square kilometers and 77.6 percent of the landmass has become drier. And that&#8217;s not all.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>7.6 percent of global soils <\/strong>or an area larger than Canada have been pushed beyond the threshold of aridity (i.e., no longer classified as non-arid). With <strong>obvious impacts<\/strong> on agriculture, ecosystems and people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the absence of action to mitigate global warming and greenhouse gas emissions, <a href=\"https:\/\/resoilfoundation.org\/news\/desertificazione-colpisce-tre-quarti-terre-emerse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">it is estimated<\/a> that another <strong>3 percent of wetlands<\/strong> will become arid by the end of the 21st century. When, according to the same forecast, the number of people affected by the phenomenon will reach 5 billion.<\/p>\n<div class='avia-iframe-wrap'>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"hdTVKSrQ8w\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/resoilfoundation.org\/en\/articles\/cop16-desertificazione-presidente-unccd\/\">&#8220;Desertification is the greatest environmental challenge of our time&#8221;<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;&#8220;Desertification is the greatest environmental challenge of our time&#8221;&#8221; &#8212; Re Soil Foundation\" src=\"https:\/\/resoilfoundation.org\/en\/articles\/cop16-desertificazione-presidente-unccd\/embed\/#?secret=j5jNNtAcmY#?secret=hdTVKSrQ8w\" data-secret=\"hdTVKSrQ8w\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h5>In France over 750 thousand hectares of desertified soil<\/h5>\n<p>What about France? The numbers, so far, are significantly lower in comparison with other countries. But they still give pause for thought. In 2024, the <strong>French Scientific Committee on Desertification<\/strong> (CSFD), in collaboration with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nitidae.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nitidae<\/a> association, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.csf-desertification.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-Etat-des-lieux-sur-la-desertification-en-France-Nitidae.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">updated<\/a> its assesment of the phenomenon on a national scale after a decade.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In France, the dry arid, semi-arid and sub-humid area amounts to almost 1 million hectares, or <strong>1.8 percent of the total<\/strong>. In 30 years (1993-2022), moreover, about <strong><strong>39% of the territory<\/strong><\/strong>e xperienced a transformation of its climate, which became drier.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But there is more. Today, the Committee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.csf-desertification.org\/la-france-170e-pays-declare-affecte-par-la-degradation-des-terres-et-la-desertification\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">explains<\/a>, 3.2 percent of French soil (over 1.7 million hectares) is considered <strong>degraded <\/strong>\u201con the basis of the three indicators indicated by the Convention&#8221;. These are land cover, vegetation productivity and sequestered organic carbon stock. According to these parameters, desertification affects about 76 thousand hectares of land in France. Taking into account the indicators suggested by the JRC, the European Commission&#8217;s Joint Research Center), however, it comes to <strong>over 750K <\/strong>\u00a0or 1.4 percent of the total area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late last year, France was added for the first time to the UN list of countries declared affected by land degradation and desertification. 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